ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TYPHUS
From New Latin tӯphus, from Greek tuphos fever; related to tuphein to smoke.
7 QUOTES WITH «TYPHUS»
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typhus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TYPHUS»
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typhus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Murderous Medicine: Nazi Doctors, Human Experimentation, and ...
Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, would use the disease as a form of biological warfare against ...
The screenplay Typhus was penned by Sartre in 1943-44 as a commission for French filmmakers Pathe, who were by that stage already planning their post-war production.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre, 2010
3
Typhus and Doughboys: The American Polish
Typhus Relief ...
This book chronicles this almost forgotten episode of America's crusading humanitarianism era.
Alfred E. Cornebise, 1982
4
The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How
Typhus ...
“Gripping . . . a compelling story of personal hubris and humbling defeat.” —Jack Weatherford,author of the New York Times bestseller Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights ...
5
Weapons of Mass Destruction
icant threat today,biological warfare (BW) programs in the past have investigated
typhus as a potential biological weapon,including the United States (during
World War II) and the former Soviet Union. Natural outbreaks of typhus are ...
Typhus is a serious and sometimes fatal disease that spreads rapidly when
people are crowded together in unhygienic conditions. It is one of the great
drawbacks of the emergency camps that are set up to help people after natural
disasters.
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Selected Papers on the Pathogenic Rickettsiae
The first description of murine typhus fever is credited to J. E. Paullin, who in
1913 recognized a mild form of typhus fever occurring in Atlanta, Georgia (1).
Before the disease was conclusively identified and established as an entity
separate ...
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Clinical lectures on the contagious
typhus, epidemic in ...
We come now to the most important part of our subject — the cure, or more
correctly speaking, the treatment of typhus. Here I think it necessary to premise,
that the directions I am, at present, to lay before you, relate solely and exclusively,
...
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Military Medicine: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century
Typhus be most effectively controlled by delousing with DDT, lindane, or
Malathion. Typhus probably originated in Asia and came to Europe relatively late.
There may have been an outbreak in a Sicilian monastery as early as A.D. 1083,
but ...
Jack Edward McCallum, 2008
10
Typhoid Fever and
Typhus Fever
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Heinrich Curschmann, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TYPHUS»
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typhus is used in the context of the following news items.
Funds remain unused even as dengue, typhus cases spike
"The situation is worse in the district. The district has been witnessing an increase in the number of dengue and scrub typhus cases. Only the effective preventive ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
Rare disease linked to fleas returns to Galveston
GALVESTON, Texas -- A disease rarely seen since the 1940s has turned up again in the Galveston area. Murine typhus is spread by fleas on rats and opossums ... «KHOU, Jul 15»
Chennai sees rise in 'rural' scrub typhus
CHENNAI: City doctors are seeing an increasing number of patients with scrub typhus, a fever usually seen in rural areas. From a diseases caused by mites, ... «Times of India, Apr 15»
New research shows Anne Frank perished earlier than thought
(CNN) — Seventy years ago, Anne Frank died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 15. Just two weeks after her supposed death on March 31, ... «Fox17, Apr 15»
Anne Frank probably died one month earlier than initially thought …
Anne Frank probably died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp about a month earlier than previously thought, the Amsterdam museum that honours her ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
CDC warns against scrub typhus during tomb sweeping season
The risk of scrub typhus increases around the time of Tomb Sweeping Day on April 5, when many people walk through bushy areas to reach their ancestors' ... «WantChinaTimes, Mar 15»
Possums Likely Culprit as "Niche Disease" Appears in SoCal …
A form of typhus with flu-like symptoms that can lead to hospitalization if left untreated is popping up in parts of Southern California, and possums are the likely ... «NBC Southern California, Mar 15»
Scrub typhus disease kills eight in Shimla
Scrub typhus disease kills eight in Shimla ... eight people have been killed here in less than two months after falling prey to the high intensity scrub typhus fever. «Hindustan Times, Sep 14»
One more tests positive for scrub typhus
JAIPUR: One more person tested positive for scrub typhus in the city on Saturday. The patient was brought to a private hospital in the city from Kali Pahari village ... «Times of India, Aug 14»
Nazi Doctors' Perverse Response to Typhus in Jewish Ghettos
Weigl offered Fleck and his associates a modicum of protection by getting them carnets that identified them as workers in the German Army's typhus institute. «Slate Magazine, Aug 14»
